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Yandex Office II by Za Bor Architects

It is indicative that this office is to some extent a return to the
roots of cooperation of za bor architects and the largest Russian
IT-corporation Yandex. The first office developed for Yandex by za bor
architects is in the same building of the Benois business center in
Saint Petersburg, but on a lower floor. In 2008 it was a brilliant
premiere published by almost all the leading architecture and design
media in Russia. The project has picked up many awards. Four years later
za bor architects and Yandex had decided to repeat the success on a
larger scale – Yandex Saint-Petersburg office II is almost twice as
large as the previous one – it houses the entire fourth floor of the
building and has a corridor about 200 meters long (total floor area 3310
sqm), but size doesn’t matter, clients wanted an «extraordinary office
like no other»